United States Ninth Circuit

In a Title VII action claiming sex discrimination by the Air Force, the dismissal of the action is affirmed where the intramilitary immunity doctrine, as embraced by the Ninth Circuit in Mier v. Owens, 57 F.3d 747 (9th Cir. 1995), was not superseded by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/10/2010
• Decided 06/08/2010
• Published 06/08/2010

Judges

• Before CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, JOHN T. NOONAN and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. Conley; James Burr Shields II; Phoenix, AZ; W. Blake Simms; Phoenix, AZ, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Suzanne M. Chynoweth; Phoenix, AZ; Marleigh Dover; Washington, D.C.; Lowell Sturgill, Jr., Washington, D.C., for the appellee.